Jurgen Klopp has a rare ability to offer perspective to an increasingly mad world with a few understated sentences.

And before Tuesday’s game with Chelsea, as he stared down the barrel of a fourth successive Anfield defeat, and with it growing claims from the malcontents that he wasn’t up to the Liverpool job, he said this:

“Am I allowed to go for the best position in the Premier League? Or should we just put our heads down and say, 'Okay, sorry. We failed again. Let’s get through the season and next year try again with different players and maybe a new manager’?”

It was a deliberate calling out of the doubters in the media and some of the club’s more knee-jerk (and, mainly, non-match attending) fans.

A composed cut through the hysterical noise that drowns out reasoned debate in modern football.

Fickleness has been turned into an art form among a certain type of football observer.

The Wenger Out! bandwagon was rolling again after Arsenal’s Tuesday defeat by Watford, three days after he was hailed for an away-day masterclass at Southampton.

Pep Guardiola walked into the eye of a storm for not turning Manchester City overnight into Barcelona 2.0.

Wenger and Guardiola have been targeted too after poor results (Image: Getty)

A few weeks ago, Ronald Koeman was being labelled the new Roberto Martinez after Evertin hit a bad patch.

Even Antonio Conte was written off by some after a couple of early Chelsea defeats.

But the Klopp backlash this month, from the clickbait commentariat, has been the most telling — because it defies all logic.

Here’s some of the criticisms I’ve heard, or read, being levelled at the double Bundesliga winner and Champions League finalist of late:

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* He’s too arrogant and stubborn.

* He should have lined-up a top notch replacement for Sadio Mane while he was over in Africa.

* His heavy-metal style is history, Conte is the type of manager Liverpool need, and the nearest to him is Diego Simeone. So get him. Now. Then everything will be okay.

To this small minority of delusion-sufferers there is no allowance for a bump in the road, a learning curve in his first full season in the world’s most demanding league, operating on a lower budget than his four biggest rivals and finding out the hard way that his squad isn’t good enough.

To them, his side taking more points at this stage than Liverpool have in 23 of the past 25 seasons is no sign of progress when he gets knocked out of two cup competitions in a week.

Even though it is.

Klopp is no superman. He’s made mistakes and will continue to make them.

And the sickening sense of deja vu that afflicts Liverpool fans, who over the past 20 years have often felt on the brink of a title challenge, only to see it disappear, has left some believing they’re doomed to be bit-part players.

Until a bountiful sugar daddy buys the club and gives it the same spending power as Europe’s financial giants that may be the case.

Liverpool fans have been waiting since 1991 to be champions again... (Image: Getty)

...and after 2014's near-miss there is a fear among some Reds that they never will (Image: Getty)

But in the meantime, even if Liverpool finish outside the Champions League places again in May, trusting in Klopp is not just their best option but their only one.

As anyone with half-a-brain understands.

And anyone without half-a-brain, who wets the bed and bawls about it after a few bad results, will never understand.

Because they’ll never have the one thing that the German brings which Liverpool FC has been crying out for — a cold perspective to cut through the nostalgia-fuelled hysteria.